MassBudget Staff

Five Things to Look for in the FY 2020 Budget

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Anyone who has set foot in a public school, driven on a road, or gone to a public park has been touched by the state budget. What we fund in our state budget reflects what we deem important.

None of these essential services would be possible without the revenue to pay for it. Further, it is important to consider whether the state is raising revenue fairly.

As the Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 budget debates kick off this week, here are five questions to consider.

Budget Monitor Conference Preview: Differences Between the Senate and House Budgets for FY 2019

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The House and Senate Budgets reflect similar values: expanding access to education, helping working families to make ends meet (with an expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit), and helping families to find housing. Both budgets are also constrained by limited revenue and are not able to make progress in a number of important areas including making higher education more affordable and significantly improving our transportation systems. The list below highlights several of the substantial differences between the House and Senate budgets, and the rest of this Monitor provides more detail on differences that the Legislature’s budget Conference Committee will have to reconcile.

Analyzing the Governor’s Budget for FY 2019

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The Governor’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 budget proposal level funds much of state government, includes some targeted initiatives – including an expanded earned income tax credit (EITC) and new services for people struggling with and recovering from mental illness – and proposes small reductions in funding, after accounting for inflation, for higher education and other areas.

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